The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hawkes, Lawson
Fuel complexes resulting from power-saw spacing in young coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine stands were quantitatively assessed for loading and duration of hazard. Fuel appraisal data were combined with fire weather regimes to derive fire behavior predictions for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dieterich
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bevins, Roussopoulos
In this paper, we offer a general overview of the design and status of the NFIL. We discuss the structure of the Fuels Inventory Database, the function of the various database management programs available in the Management Software Package, and the current contents of the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos, Yancik, Radloff
'We have developed a prototype National Fire Occurrence Data Library (NF0DL) to help fire managers interact with resource managers in meeting the new planning requirements of the Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act. The data library provides means for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carleton, Maycock
Results from an extensive vegetation survey of 197 boreal forest stands, encompassing a full spectrum of succession and site types in the regions of Ontario and Quebec south of James Bay, are reported. Non-centered principal component analysis plus varimax rotation (nodal…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maass
A single thallus of Erioderma pedicellatum has been found in Newfoundland near one of the 2 North American localities known thus far for this unusual lichen. Whereas almost all of the other species of the genus have tropical to subtropical affinities in their distribution and…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romme
It is often quite difficult to compare fire history studies conducted by different investigators because different terms may be used to refer to the same concept and the same term may be used to refer to different concepts. To help resolve this difficulty, an ad hoc committee…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fuquay
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) (Deeming and others 1972) has been updated; the revised system will be in use in l978 (Deeming and others 1977). One of the changes in the NFDRS is treatment of lightning-caused fires. A model based on physical and stochastic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Egging, Barney, Thompson
Offers a system for land management planning that enables managers to include and evaluate the effects of wildfire or prescribed burning on resources. Diagrams important considerations and decision-making steps.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kessell, Fischer
Forest managers can model and predict the postfire succession of plant communities using existing and/or readily obtainable data. The methods presented require neither computation nor computer analysis. Examples are provided from the Northern Rocky Mountains, but the methods are…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Fischer
Describes a user-oriented computer system that allows fire managers to analyze climatological data for the purpose of predicting the probable occurrence of desired prescribed fire conditions. Provides instruction for use of the system and documents all programs. A computer…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Chase
Presents simplified equations for solving the fire containment problem. Equations can be used on a programmable pocket calculator to derive the burned area, given forward rate of spread, initial area, fire shape length/width ratio, and control-line construction rate. Equations…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fischer
The Chief of the USDA's Forest Service considers fire equal to such perennial controversies as inflation, herbicies, log exports and timber management practices. The revised USFS fire policy calls for fire management; the previous policy specified fire control. The ultimate…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
The author describes a stochastic model of forest stand rotation which can be used to determine the optimal planned rotation interval for flammable forest stands. The model can also be used to estimate the value of fire management activities in terms of the potential enhanced…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
Threads of continuity ran through this excellent workshop. The workshop was characterized by an abiding interest in a common terminology, concern about scale (how large, or small, an area can be represented), the resolution of data required to make effective management decisions…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moir
Southwestern canyon woodlands, for purposes of this paper, are vegetation types along canyon bottoms for mostly third and fourth order drainages whose streams may be permanent or intermittent. These include habitat types within blue spruce, white fir, ponderosa pine, narrowleaf…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Steele
Repeated observations of permanent plots and transects are used to evaluate adaptive responses of individual species and communities of perennial plants following fires that occurred in 1974. Positive adaptations are common, but are weakly developed. Recovery is taking place,…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gilbert, Nias
A teleprinter-type terminal, located in the six Regional offices of the Ministry of Forests, accesses a central computer to allow daily fire weather data to be stored and analyze within a time-frame suitable for making fire management decisions. The data is organized in a manner…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zackrisson
The past and present fire regimes are described, and the significance for the flora of this region is discussed. Methods used to reconstruct forest fire history are presented. The dating problems with false and absent rings in Scots pine, Norway spruce and two birch species…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson
Evidence from 10 years of fire records and 300 years of tree ages and fire scars indicate that forest fires in a large area east of Great Slave Lake, N.W.T. are recurrent over a short time interval (<125 years) and related to large scale air mass climate patterns and terrain…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hawkes
Mean fire return intervals for different ecological subzones, aspects and elevations in Kananaskis Provincial Park were described. Comparison of the results from this study with others was not practical because of a number of constraints. A discussion of the mean fire return…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viereck, Schandelmeier
Alaskan land and resource managers are moving from a policy of fire control to one of fire management. To use fire as a tool to reach resource management objectives, managers need information on fire effects and the role of fire in northern environment. The authors searched and…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Krider, Noggle, Pifer, Vance
Extensive networks of magnetic direction-finding (DF) stations have been installed throughout the western United States and Alaska to facilitate early detection of lightning-caused fires. Each station contains a new wideband direction-finder that responds primarily to cloud-to-…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This paper surveys available information on fire regimes and methodology employed in elucidating these regimes during the suppression, presuppression and post-glacial periods, principally in the boreal and Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest regions of Ontario. The presettlement…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS